Red cherry shrimp in saltwater?

[cpetrosky]

This might be a stupid and pointless experiment but has anyone tried to keep RCS in a saltwater setup? I know you can keep guppies in SW but can't seem to find anyone who kept shrimp in it. WOudl they breed? could they live for a few minutes, Days weeks? it would be nice to add feeder shrimp that could live for a few days until my fish got to them.

 

[user_name]

Do you mean full marine or brackish?

 

[cpetrosky]

full mariene.

 

[petluvr]

Not a saltie or a biologist but I don't think they would last long. Dropping a freshwater creature into a saltwater environment I would think would be deadly within minutes.

 

[TheFishBoss97]

You might be able to slowly acclimate them via brackish and then full marine

 

[spencerguy1]

That would be awesome! Do wat ritap said and keep us updated!!!

 

[XanAvaloni]

Not to be harsh but this strikes me as cruel and pointless. No, neocaridina shrimp are not saltwater creatures. Not even brackish from anything I have ever heard or read. Some of the caridinas (amanos, ninjas, mandarins etc) live in salt as hatchlings but that would be logistically difficult, as some AC experimenters are finding out.

There ARE saltwater shrimp; if you wish to do such an experiment try establishing a colony of these, then your SW fish could prey on the young or weak as nature intended. To throw cherries into salt would be like throwing you into a room full of ammonia gas. Yes you might last a short while but it would be hideous.

I am the furthest thing from an animal-rights activist but this just seems wrong.

 

[fshfanatic]

AFAIK they will not survive and would probably die fairly quickly. If you are set on feeding them Cherries, I would think tossing in 1 or two at a time would be adequate to allow your fish to eat them quickly.

 

[cpetrosky]

Thanks for the replies. It was just something that I thought of last night. I have a 20 gallon cheery shrimp tank with over 300 shrimp in it and a 3 gallon pico reef. I thought thT cherry shrimp might be a nice vacation food. Put a few in and let the fish eat as it gets hungry.